Speak softly.
It’s written

Sotto turns your voice into clean text, right at your cursor — and every word stays on your device.

Download for Windows See how it works
  • 100% local
  • No cloud
  • No telemetry
  • English & Dutch

Hold. Speak. Release.

One key. No wake words, no windows to click. Dictation that ends the moment you let go.

  1. Hold

    Hold the push-to-talk key. Sotto listens only while you hold it — never in the background.

  2. Speak

    Say what you mean, in English or Dutch, the way you’d say it to a colleague.

  3. Release

    Let go. Your words appear at the cursor, cleaned up and ready to send.

A quiet tool that keeps up

Fully local & private

Speech recognition runs on your PC. No cloud transcription, no accounts, no telemetry.

Clean text in ~2 seconds

Release the key and your words are pasted almost before you look down.

English & Dutch

Two languages, a key for each. Switch mid-thought by pressing the other key.

Works in any app

Pastes at your cursor — email, documents, chat, browsers, code editors.

Personal dictionary & snippets

Teach Sotto your names and jargon, and expand short phrases into full text.

Spoken commands

Say “new line”, make lists, add punctuation — without touching the keyboard.

Nothing leaves your machine.

Sotto transcribes with whisper.cpp, running entirely on your own hardware. The optional text cleanup uses a local model too — also on your machine, also offline.

Your dictation history is a file on your own disk. Read it, export it, delete it — it’s yours. There are no accounts and no telemetry, so there is nothing to opt out of.

Try it quietly

14-day free trial

Then a one-time license

Every feature from day one, without an account or a subscription. Your license is verified offline — like everything else Sotto does.

  • Full trial — nothing held back
  • Pay once, keep it
  • Offline license key, no activation server
Download for Windows

Windows 10/11 · pricing announced at launch

Questions, answered

Is it really offline?

Yes. Transcription and cleanup run on your PC. Sotto makes no network calls — you can watch your firewall stay quiet while you dictate.

Which languages does it support?

English and Dutch, each on its own push-to-talk key. Pinning the language keeps transcription fast and accurate.

Is it Windows only?

Yes, Sotto is built for Windows 10 and 11. Other platforms may come later; we’d rather do one well.

How does licensing work?

You get a signed license key after purchase. Sotto verifies the signature on your machine — no activation server, no phoning home. It keeps working offline, forever.

Does it work in my app?

If you can place a cursor in it, Sotto can type into it. It pastes text like you would — email, docs, chat, terminals, code editors.